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We’ve been trialling a new smartphone app called Talko that blends realtime audio, text messaging, and image sharing into one seamless stream. It already seems like a promising step forward in streamlining teamwork, although it’s currently on iPhone only. There’s a great in-depth article on Talko, and the story behind it, on Medium.com. Talko is latest project of veteran collaboration tool pioneer Ray Ozzie.

Register now for our Collaborative Knowledge Creation session One of the benefits of collaboration is that it allows us to bring diverse knowledge to a particular challenge or opportunity. But how do we work together to apply knowledge once it’s been collected? How do we ensure the flow of knowledge across social, industry, and disciplinary boundaries? How do we work together to create new knowledge, to be used now and in the future? As part of Melbourne Knowledge Week, Collabforge […]

It’s been four months since we launched Epic Collaboration, our initiative to grow the world’s capability for collaboration. Since then, we’ve made a lot of progress, and learned heaps about how to realise our vision. We’ve written a blog post summarising our learnings. We’d value your comments on this post, and you’ll see we’ve already had lots of great feedback. We’re already planning next steps, and we anticipate starting monthly collaboration sessions. Register to be notified.

For those not on our subscriber list – here’s our newsletter for August. COLLABFORGE OUT AND ABOUT… We’re getting out of the office to talk collaboration, innovation and knowledge with two upcoming events: Level Up Workshop – 27th August Collabforge will be hosting our second LEVEL UP: Skills for Mass Collaboration Workshop August 27.Acknowledging great feedback on our July workshop, this month we’ll be focusing more deeply on how to use principles of stigmergy to get your audience collaborating with having […]

For those not on our subscriber list – here’s our newsletter for July. HELP US WRITE AN EPIC… The Collabforge team are serious about helping improve the world’s collaboration capability—we launched Epic Collaboration last month. We’re so happy with the initiative’s progress and excited to see what it spells for our collective future. Missed out? Watch the event video below and let us know if you want to get involved! COLLABORATING WITH THE CROWD We hosted Collaborating with the Crowd, the second Epic Collaboration event […]

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UNESCO

Pacific Heritage Hub

Collabforge assisted the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to initiate a ‘Pacific Heritage Hub’ which will act as an interactive knowledge management facility with a view to enhancing information sharing, strengthening heritage management capacity, and facilitating sustainable funding and partnership building across the Pacific.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

International Aid & Development Innovation Hub

Collabforge is providing strategy, innovation methodology and collaboration technology for the soon to be established Aid and Development Innovation Hub

Department of Industry and Science

Industry Innovation Network

As part of the Industry Innovation Precinct Program, Collabforge designed and deloped a collaboration program and software platform to engage industry and research communities for increased innovation, productivity and national competitiveness.

LivingGreener Collaborative Community

Collabforge developed an intranet platform and associated collaboration strategy enabling Federal, State and Local Governments to collaborate on content for LivingGreener, the primary web portal for Australians to learn, understand and act on environmental efficiency programs.

Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

myregion Strategic Engagement Project

Collabforge is assisting the myregion team with an engagement program, consulting a range of stakeholders regarding future directions for the myregion website.

Department of Planning and Community Development, VIC

Volunteering Portal Social Media Strategy Scoping

Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria

VPS Hub, Victorian Government Intranet

The VPS Hub was a comprehensive project to re-develop the Whole of Victorian Government Intranet, serving an audience of 42,000+ users. Collabforge was engaged to develop the technology platform & engagement strategy. The Hub provides for collaboration across the Victorian Public Service, enabling access to a full suite of social media tools including blogging, wikis, forums, an innovation toolbox, and ideas generation platform.

Department of Justice, Victoria

Victoria's Emergency Services Volunteers Facebook Community

Collabforge developed a social media marketing strategy and ran a rolling Facebook campaign achieving 20,000 community members. We also provided community management and moderation in collaboration with the Department, eventually mentoring an in house team to take over management of the still thriving community.

City of Melbourne

FutureMelbourne - The City Plan that Anyone Can Edit

Collabforge worked with the City of Melbourne to map their existing city planning planning process, and then reengineered this for mass collaboration. A collaborative online platform was developed which enabled anyone in the world to directly edit the city’s 10 year plan for the future. Learn more.

Parks Victoria

wePlan Parks Management Planning Platform

For Parks Victoria, Collabforge developed an organisation-wide, collaborative public consultation platform and associated strategy. The platform and its related activity was recognised for its ground breaking approach by the Department of Premier and Cabinet as part of the Government 2.0 Action Plan.

Department of Business & Innovation (DBI) Victoria

Trade Engagement Program - India (TEPI) Mission 2.0 Online Platform

Collabforge worked closely with the Department of Business & Innovation (DBI) Victoria, advisers, industry managers and mission participants (Victorian businesses) to co-create an online platform to aid with the trade mission. The platform was designed to support the trade mission orientation program to Victorian businesses; clearly communicate the unique value proposition for all involved; engage with users through opportunities, interactions and content; and provide knowledge transfer and business strategy support.

VicHealth

Online Collaborative Environment

With VicHealth, we developed workshop-driven user needs assessment program. This involved a prototype online collaborative environment for the sharing of ideas and resources both internally and with stakeholders. The outcome was an ongoing stakeholder collaboration program and appropriate enabling technologies.

ACT Government

CBR Innovation Network

Consulting and workshop support with key stakeholders to help identify challenges and opportunities for network growth and collaboration.

Libraries ACT

Collaboration & Innovation Capability Program

Exploring with staff how to improve customer engagement and adopt new ways of working across Libraries ACT.

Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts – Tasmania

Digital Deloraine Scoping Workshop

Collabforge assisted the department with the integration and adoption of social media and Government 2.0 best practice, as part of creating and launching the award winning service, www.business.tas.gov.au

Southern California Association of Governments

Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning Wiki

Collabforge worked closely with the Southern California Association of Government developing a comprehensive engagement strategy and delivering a scalable online platform for the collaborative development of the Association’s bicycle and pedestrian plan. (Public consultation and site launch planned for November 2010)

Alberta Department of Human Services

Collabforge assisted the Alberta Department of Human Services in the development of a strategy and platform for online engagement that supported the crowdsourcing of their first ever Social Policy Framework. Read more about the outcomes from this project.

Latrobe University – Australian Futures Project

Australian Futures Project

RMIT University

Department of Justice & Country Fire Authority (CFA), Victoria

FireReady iPhone Application

Our work with the Department of Justice and Country Fire Authority (CFA) produced Australia’s first official real-time location-aware fire incident and advice application for the iPhone.

Museum of Democracy at Eureka

Collaboration Design & Support

VECCI – Online Strategy & consluting

Online strategy & consluting

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GBCMA)

Premium Australian Foods

Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CCMA)

Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL)

Manufacturing Excellence Taskforce of Australia (META)

CBR Innovation Network (CBRIN)

Low Carbon Living CRC

Fisheries Research Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Centre of Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science (CEIPS)

Telstra

URS Corporation

Doncaster Rail Study

Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria

Web 2.0 Framework

We are currently working with the EPA to develop an organisation-wide web 2.0 framework to ensure the integration of web2.0 systems and tools into their business.

Carbon Down

Carbon Compass

Collabforge worked with Carbon Down towards development of a collaborative online platform to help small and medium-sized businesses find new ways of tackling climate change. In addition to organisational collaboration & support services, Collabforge provided Web 2.0 change management & training.

IMAP (Inner Melbourne Action Plan)

Wiki Intranet and Corporate Site

IMAP is a collaboration across four inner Melbourne councils: the Cities of Melbourne, Port Phillip, Stonnington and Yarra. The aim being to strengthen the liveability, attraction and prosperity of the region. Collabforge is in the process of developing a wiki driven, intranet collaboration environment for IMAP, along with a public fronting site.

ProQuest

Social Information Strategy

Collabforge developed an organisation-wide, short-to-long-term technology strategy for Proquest’s suite of databases. We also developed social (wiki) functionality for one of ProQuest’s core web-based products, Early English Books Online (EEBO). ProQuest provides digitised resources to libraries, research and educational institutions the world over.

Western Australian Ballet Association (WAB)

Open Studio Online Community

WAB are seeking to develop a web 2.0 community website to connect the distributed ballet community – students and teachers – in Western Australia. To begin this process Collabforge was engaged to design and undertake a feasibility study including online strategy research and development, workshop materials and coaching and a community survey. Collabforge delivered a final report containing our recommendations and a project brief for website development.

Western District Health Service

Farmer Health Portal

Collabforge worked closely with this client over a period of time to deliver a comprehensive website for its users including blogging, forum and health education capabilities.

Knowledge Cities World Summit

Social Media Strategy

Collabforge worked closely with this client over a period of time to deliver a social media strategy to support the activities around the first Knowledge Cities Summit to be held in Melbourne.

Health Workforce Australia (HWA)

Collaboration Strategy Scoping Program

Collabforge delivered a scoping program and recommendations towards development of an organisational collaboration strategy for HWA. An initiative of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), HWA was established to meet the future challenges of providing a health workforce that responds to the needs of the entire Australian Community.

ANZ Bank

Collaboration & Community Building Program

Victorian Institute of Teaching

Institute for Large Scale Innovation

What people are saying

Collabforge made developing our Website and Wiki simple. No wading through the jargon land of ‘Information Technology'; just dialogue that made sense and practically aligned with what we were trying to achieve. So patient, so helpful and always on the other end of the phone when I needed to ask a question.

Alison Fitzgerald Inner Melbourne Action Plan Implementation Officer

We definitely wouldn’t have been able to get to this point without all of the hard work you personally put in, and the assistance of everyone at Collabforge. Thank you so much! I feel like our vision is finally becoming an actuality.

Deb Robertson Education Officer West Australian Ballet

Collabforge occupies a niche in the market that is new and emerging. None of the bigger players yet “get” this space, whereas Collabforge has a profound understanding of both how people (communities, businesses, government) collaborate and how this is best achieved online.